Working Team Leader in Sheffield

Sheffield – The Outdoor City - Join Our Green Spaces Team! Are you passionate about creating vibrant, welcoming, and high‑quality green spaces for local communities? Do you enjoy leading teams, developing others, and taking pride in delivering outstanding standards in parks and public places? If so, this could be the perfect opportunity for you.

About the Role

As a Working Team Leader, you’ll play a key role in shaping, caring for and improving Sheffield’s parks, gardens, and public realm. You’ll lead a grounds maintenance team within a geographical area of the city—working hands‑on and using your expertise to ensure our green spaces look their very best. You’ll combine horticultural skill, people leadership, and great customer service to deliver a high‑quality, safe, and efficient service for our residents and visitors.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Leading, motivating, and organising a grounds maintenance team across Sheffield.
• Carrying out a full range of horticultural and environmental maintenance tasks—including turf care, sports field upkeep, planting, and soft/hard landscape maintenance.
• Ensuring work is completed safely, on time, to specification and to a high standard.
• Supporting the training and development of staff, seasonal workers, trainees, and volunteers.
• Working positively with local communities, tenant/resident groups, and partner organisations to enhance green spaces.
• Responding to customer enquiries and helping resolve issues with professionalism and care.
• Managing machinery, plant and equipment to ensure safe and efficient operation.

What We’re Looking For

• Experience supervising staff, volunteers or community groups within a green‑space, horticultural or grounds‑maintenance environment.
• Strong knowledge of health & safety and safe systems of work, including grounds maintenance machinery.
• Great organisational skills, the ability to prioritise, and confidence working both independently and as part of a team.
• Good communication and customer service skills, with the ability to deal professionally with the public.
• Commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion.
• A full clean driving licence.

Our Values

We’re looking for someone who shares our values: People are at the heart of what we do. We believe in openness and honesty. Together we get things done.

Why Join Us?

• Make a real, visible difference in Sheffield’s much‑loved parks and public spaces.
• Be part of a supportive, hands‑on team committed to quality and community.
• Develop your leadership and technical skills through ongoing training and experience.
• Work outdoors in a varied and rewarding role where no two days are the same.

Further information on this post can be obtained by contacting: E-mail – Catherine.McDougall@sheffield.gov.uk

We are investing in our workforce and are promoting opportunities to our under-represented groups. We value equality, diversity and inclusion and are focused on increasing the diversity of our workforce, particularly the number of Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic, Disabled and LGBTQ people, so that our teams reflect the communities in the city we serve. We are also supporting staff with unpaid caring responsibilities to work flexibly. It is a great time to join us and we welcome your application.

Under the Guaranteed Interview scheme, applicants who are disabled, care leavers, or armed forces veterans will be guaranteed an interview if they meet the essential criteria and indicate their eligibility on the application form.

Full-time employees work 37 hours for 52 weeks of the year and we offer a generous holiday entitlement. We are open to discussions about a wide range of flexible working opportunities which benefit you and the Council, including reduced hour contracts, working part time or as a job share.

If you are appointed to this role, your starting salary will be at the bottom of the grade. If you provide payslip evidence that your basic pay is greater than the bottom of the grade, we will consider starting you at the point of minimum advantage within the grade. Equality of pay is extremely important to us. All roles at Sheffield City Council are going through an evaluation process which may result in changes to some pay arrangements from 2026.